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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jochen1, post: 3265584, member: 103829&quot;]<b>The rarest coin of Nikopolis ad Istrum!</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Macrinus, AD 217-218</p><p>AE 28, 11.12g, 27.87mm, 195°</p><p>struck under governor Marcus Claudius Agrippa</p><p>obv. AVT K OPPEL C - EVH MA[KRINOC]</p><p>Bust, draped and cuirassed, seen from behind, laureate, r.</p><p>rev. VP AGRIP[PA NIKOP]OLITWN PROC I / CTRW</p><p>Nude youth (mountain-god Haimos), slight drapery over r. shoulder and knees, wearing boots, std. r.(!) on rocks, looking back, l. hand on head, r. arm with spear resting on tree behind</p><p>in r. field AIMOC</p><p>ref. a) AMNG I/1, 1700, pl. III, 24 (1 ex., Bassarabescu)</p><p>b) not in Varbanov (engl.):</p><p>cf.#3390: different obv. legend, spear not mentioned, pic of rev. from Moushmov</p><p>c) Hristova/Hoeft/Jekov (2018) No. 8.23.43.4 (plate coin)</p><p>unique (R10), F+, actually the coin is not so green, but so some details are clearer, e.g. the spear</p><p>pedigree:</p><p>ex dianacoins, Ebay, 2009</p><p>ex coll. Steve Cady, Tantalus Coins, #34158, 2012</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]860105[/ATTACH]</p><p>This is the only coin where Haimos is sitting r. One of the rarest types of Nikopolis at all. This type was listed and depicted in AMNG I/1. Nicolae Bassarabescu, a Romanian collector, was in AD 1890 the director of the journal &quot;Poporul&quot; in Bukaresti. But the coin vanished in the course of time. It is now the first time that this type appears in the public after more than 100 years. Enjoy!</p><p><br /></p><p>My Nikopolis Gallery <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=3006&amp;page=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=3006&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=3006&amp;page=1</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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